The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-17
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A quartet of Seneca Indians are giving con-
certs in New rk.
Many cattle are dying in the cattle ranches
of Victoria, B. C.
Reno, New, complains that the sawdust in
Truckee river has produced much disease in
that town.
woman at Santa Cruz, Cal, has sued
her husband for divorce, the chief ground of
complaint being that he neglected to say
grace at his meals.
Five hundred gallons of wine have just
been received in Chicago from Jerusalem. 1t
has been more than two months on the way.
It will be used for Passover purposes.
Minister lat baptisimal font t)-Nane, pleases
Mother-Philip Ferdinand Chesterfield Ran
dolph Livingstone. Minister aside to ossis-
tant)-Mr. Kneeler, little mere water,
please.
There is great demand for Mexican mats
to paint upon. The material is used for
panels in screens, fc, wall panels, also as an
adjustable door panel in rustic or summer
furnishing.
Rabbit hunting by moonlight is now in
dulged in by ranchers in the vicinity of Lex
ington, Ore. The destructive animals pay
nocturnal visits to haystacks in large droves,
where the hun ters lie in wait for them.
The japanese will soon permit foreigners to
dwell and do business in any part of the en-
pire When this occurs q foreign language
will be necessary to supplant the native lam
guage for official purposes, and it is said that
the Mikado and the leading statesmen favor
the English, which has long been used in the
Orient.
| Six miles from Mackinaw, Ills, is a Bit of
ground about eighty feat square that is al
ways so warm that snow melts as soon as it
falls upon it. 1t is said that when the earth
there is disturbed it flashes like burning
| powder, and that a peculiar gas comes up
| from the ground which so far has shattered
| every vessel in which an effort has been made
| to conf1ne it.
| A ball was given by deaf mutes in Balti-
more recently. The Baltimore American
| says it was a curious affair. They danced
very well and generally kept time with the
music. Waiting gave them more trouble
than the square dances. though some showed
themselves to be expert and graceful in the
may whirl A little girl danced the fishers
| hornpipe, which was unexpected and several
couples arose and danced a slow waltz to the
lively music of a hornpipe.
The salaries paid New York teachers are
scarcely princely, when one considers the
cost of living here. The salaries of the male
assistant teachers range from So, ,016 to 81 ,0S0
The salaries of the female assistants range
from 81, JIG to sG33 in male grammar schools
from S1,0S6 to s603 in mixed grammar
schools, from 81 ,O56 to S603 in female gram
mar schools and from 5000 to s504 in primary
| departments and schools. Principals salarie
run up as high as $500 or $4,000. All NAL,
assistant teachers of less than one years ex
perience receive S720 the first year anc
| females S40S.
The apprehensions of war have afforded
three English officers of the Salvation arm,
in Paris an opportunity which they availet
themselves of in their own manner. On
afternoon recently three men, dressed in tn
unborn by this time familiar to everybody
were walking along the Rue de Rivoli, carry
ing big placards on which were written
"War is Declared" An indignant crow,
gathered around them, tore up the placards
and would have i'll treated the officers but TO
the timely arrival of policemen, who dis
persed the mob and marched these salvation
lists off to the station.